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Republicunts don’t want none of that edumacation

That’s what a survey just found — the majority of Republicans, 58% of’em, think higher education is bad for America. ‘Cause it teaches you that thare book larnin’, not, like, Bible larnin’. Why, you might even stop thinking that the world is flat and an invisible sky demon makes the Sun rise every morning if you got too much of that thare book larnin’.

Now, you might say, what about the America that send men to the Moon and such? How we gonna do shit like that again if we don got no edumacation? But look. We don’t need colleges here in the United States anymore, ’cause we can hire them thare edumacated dot-heads and chinks to do all that nerd work now, and they cain’t vote ’cause they ain’t citizens so they ain’t gonna be votin’ fer school bored members that let that thare evil “science” and “history” stuff into our classrooms. When everbody in this here cuntry gets Bible Studies all school year long (all five days long of it after the budget cuts come through, ’cause we’uns need tax brakes for our bajillionaire job creators, y’all!), then it’s gone be a Christian nation, like, again, or maybe for the first time if them LIE-berals wuz correct about how our founding fathers wuz Deists rather than Christians but hey, everbody knows them thare lie-berals, they’uns LIE.

And when them thare lie-berals say that our glorious leaders are sociopathic lizard people who view us as prey rather than as people and ain’t got our best interests in their hearts by telling us that this hare edumacation stuff is overrated… well, them thare lie-berals just bein’ mean, y’all. That’s all. ‘Cuz Big Brother loves me, I know it’s true, ‘cuz the television, it says so too, just like my preacher man. So thare!

I don’t know the exact questions asked, but I imagine the attitude being reflected is that not that colleges and universities are bad in themselves, but that the people in them and running them are bad and harming the country… the usual wonk-wonk-wonk about bastions of liberal this and that.
If they believed instead that colleges and universities just stuck to their assigned role of job training, turning out obedient legions of Business Administration and Turf Management graduates without a thought in their heads (which is largely what is really happening anyway), the numbers would be a lot higher.
Probably not 100%, because sure there are people who believe you need to read only two books in your life – the Bible and either the Ford or Chevy repair manual, both if you want to be an interdisciplinary scholar – but pointing and laughing at them is still pretty easy.

Quotes:
“According to the AAAS, “After 10 consecutive years of declines, the humanities’ share of all new bachelor’s degrees fell below 12% in 2015 for the first time since a complete accounting of humanities degree completions became possible in 1987.”
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“If one digs into the national data, one discovers that the total number of bachelor’s degrees awarded during the same period increased by only 6% — indicating a shift among undergraduates toward study in technical and scientific fields.”

Agreed to a point. That point is “paid education”. They want you to be paying for any education. After all, your grandparents only were educated to the sixth grade, unless the paid for an higher degree. And the American talaban want the same. Can a devos really say a higher education is worth nothing?

Agreed — “paid” education as in “a corporation is paid to deliver the instruction.” A core principle of the neo-con domestic program is that NOTHING should be provided by government (except brute force as in the police and military.) “Public goods” like schools, paid for by tax money (which any kkkonservative will tell you is theft goddamit!)? No way. So they destroy public education bit by bit. To be replaced with kkkorporate schools. Good ones for rich fcukers who can pay for good education for their spawn; shitty ones subsidised with tax money for the proles.

That Florida law signed by Gov. Batboy that Tux’s linky referred to? Only public schools are open to expensive legal challenges whenever some kkkon hasslegroup wants to hobble education. Corposchools can operate without strife. It’s the same thing kkkons do with all government. Get into positions of power within the government by saying “The government doesn’t work — vote for me because I HATE the government!” Then fuck up the government so it functions even worse. Next election, run again on a platform of “I HATE the government as much as you do…”

Little by little, Amerika is devolving into neoSomalia. Stupid people, crumbling infrastructure, degraded public services. Anything provided by “society” — the thing that Margaret Thatcher said there was none of — is drowned in Grover Norquist’s bathtub. As soon as he’s finished molesting his latest child victim in it.

Yee Hay! Just us God’s Elect, the Republicans’ Calvinists…and the rest are pond scum, who we deign to govern in their best interest by keeping them dumb, deluded, misinformed (or uniformed) and desperate. A self-fulfilling situation: They need our direction in their benighted ignorance. Ala Kipling, the Republicans’ Burden.

Is it stupid people, or people that accepted a half truth? It’s not the lie, but not the real story, the whole story. I believe that is our current problem. The story can not be told, it’s not completed, left in the air, to fill a all day news cycle. Then the next shoe drops, but did you see that tidbit? Or did they even bother to show the next bit. Usually, you get a coherant bit from the papers, but, they fell into the same trap, the cycle. They, papers, are so undermanned it’s pathetic.